So what I did last week was start over from scratch on the iPhone. What I want in an iPhone feed reader isn’t just a little bit different than what I want in a Mac feed reader, it’s a lot different. I used this feature to turn off a few dozen particularly noisy feeds for my iPhone location, but for me, I think that was the wrong way to use the feature. 1 The idea is that NewsGator’s online account system supports “locations”, and each location can show a specific subset of your full list of subscribed-to feeds. So by default, the iPhone version of NetNewsWire does the obvious thing and shows you the same list of subscriptions you use on the Mac (or with any other NewsGator client software, like their web app or the Windows client, FeedDemon).īack in July, NetNewsWire developer Brent Simmons posted an extremely useful tip regarding how to set certain feeds only to appear, say, on the Mac, but not on the iPhone. The integration between the Mac and iPhone versions of NetNewsWire goes through NewsGator: with syncing turned on, you get the same list of subscriptions, and the read/unread state of each item is synced. But I found that over time, I was using the iPhone version less and less.Īs you might imagine, I subscribe to a relatively large number of feeds - 155 as of today - some of which I read religiously, but many of which I only scan, looking for anything that stands out. I’ve been using NetNewsWire to read feeds on my Mac ever since it debuted in 2003, and I started using the iPhone version of NetNewsWire as soon as it appeared, too. NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data Wednesday, 21 January 2009
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